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Published weekly in the interest of the Illinois Wesleyan Uuiversity and its students.
VOL. XI. No. 5. BLOOMINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1904. PRcc FIVE CENTS
COLUMBIA CELEBRATES
In Honor of Its i50th Anniversary
-Eastern Universities Form
Triangular Debating League
Siftings From the Exchanges
Columbia University will
celebrate its 150th anniversary
on the last four days of this
month. The University was
founded as King's College in
1754.
Pennsylvania, Columbia, and
Cornell have formed a triangular
debating league. The league
will hold three debates annually,
all on the same night and on the
same question. Each University
will be represented by two teams.
A statue has recently been
completed at the University of
Minnesota dedicated to the
memory of the students of that
place who fought in the Spanish-
American war. The names of
two hundred students who en-listed
will appear on it. The
monument will cost $5,000.
In June the college editors met
in their first national convention
at St. Louis. Many interesting
and helpful features of college
journalism were discussed. Dan
McFarland of the Missouri State
University was chairman. Hon.
Frank Ferris in his welcome
address emphasized the import-ance
of the college paper, in con-clusion
he said; "The college
paper is a necessity, and the
literary training which the edi-tors
receive is of great import-ance
to them in after life." This
organization may mark the be-ginning
of better college papers.
Hazing still grows in unpopu-larity
in colleges where it has
formerly been practiced. Cornell
has come out boldly against the
practice, and President Harper of
Chicago University has an-nounced
that expulsion will fol-low
every case of hazing if the
hazers can be discovered.
The sequel of the "anti-hat-lifting
league" recently formed
by the men of the university of
Minnesota, is the "Anti-smile
association" formed by the girls
of that school. Their reasons
for this action are that smiling
causes wrinkles, and in cold
weather they cannot waste heat
in warm smiles.
It is raid that in spite of this
opposition the "anti-lifting"
movement goes peacefully and
successfully on.
Yale, Harvard, Massachussetts
Technology, and Colorado School
of Mines are arranging to lease a
Colorado mine. The purpose is
to have students from these
schools work the mines during
the summer, doing all work,
from sinking shafts to refining
the ore.
ARRANGE FOR DEBATES
Debate Committee Starting Action
For the Annual Debate With
Ohio Wesleyan
Wednesday morning after
chapel, President Longworth
called a meeting of the debate
committee to take action regard-ing
the debate with the Ohio
Wesleyan. It was the Ohioans'
turn last year to entertain our
team at Delaware. But owing
to the fact that they had debates
with other colleges last year at
home, they begged to have per-mission
to postpone the debate
with us until this year. Now
they write concerning future
arrangemen-ts in regard to hold-ing
the debate this year. The
secretary of the committee was
instructed to correspond with
Ohio regarding the choosing of
the question and sides and other
terms that need to be decided be-fore
any definite action can be
taken.
The secretary also holds a
corhmunication from Albion col-lege
of Michigan in which they
express a desire to meet the Wes-leyan
in debate at their place.
No definite action has been taken
by the committee regarding
either the acceptance or refusal
of the challenge. It is thought
best to wait and see how many
students will be interested in the
debate at all. If enough good
debating material can be inter-ested,
it is possible that two
teams can be made up. If there
is not an overabundance of ma-terial,
only one team will be
formed and this team will rep-resent
us both at Ohio and at
Albion, or it may be found best
to accept only one of the two
challenges. At any event, good
opportunities will be offered for
giving practical application of
the literary society training that
is now being offered.
No doubt it will be ruled by
the faculty that the teams shall
be made up of the successful
contestants in a meet between
the two societies, as was done in
choosing our representative
orator. It is probable that, after
the question has been selected,
the two societies will submit it to
their members for several pre-liminaries,
after which each
society will choose two teams
which will hold another pre-liminary
to decide upon the con-testants
in an inter-society con-test.
The law students are also
eligible to compete for places and
it is very probable that they will
take a hand in the matter. Steps
are being taken now to organize
a debating club among the law
students. This club will not
only offer splendid practice to the
lawyers, but it will also give
opportunities for the literary
societies to try their strength
with them in debates.
TERM ESSAY SUBJECTS
The List of Subjects For the Term
Essays of Upper Classes Is An-nounced-
Essays Due Dec. 5th
Professor Armstrong has se-lected
the subjects for the regu-lar
term essays given below.
Each student of the three upper
classes must choose one of the
subjects prescribed for his class
and write an essay on that sub-ject.
The essays are to consist
of a thousand words and are due
on December 15th.
The subjects for the Sopho-mores
are:
1. Comparison: Writings of
Jane Austen and of Charlotte
Bronte.
2. Comparison: Catherine of
Aragon (Henry VIII) and Hermi-one
(in Winter's Tale).
3. Rise of Papacy.
4. Lamb as a Critic.
5. Leo Wallace's Place in
Literature.
6. Review any one of the
following books: Henry Esmond,
Manfred, Faust, Pericles and
Aspasia, William Tell, Les Mis-erables.
The following is the list of
Senior and Junior subjects.
1. Comparison between Ameri-can
Senate and English House of
Lords.
2. The Masque.
3. Latest Developments in
Electricity.
4. Egyptian Influence on
Moses' Writings.
5. Coffee Houses in English
Literature.
Wordsworth's Treatment
6. Tennyson's df
Milton's 3Nature
7. Bible as Literature.
8. Struggle of Roman Ple-bians
for Political Equality.
9. Early Family and its Re-lation
to Society.
10. Origin of English Drama.
MCCARTY-ABBOT.
Rev. Frank McCarty, of Gib-son
City, and Miss Myrtle Abbot
of Mason City will be married
the early part of November. The
wedding will occur at the home
of the bride's parents in Mason
City.
Rev. McCarty is a graduate of
the Illinois Wesleyan and a mem-ber
of the Phi Gamma Delta Fra-ternity.
He was born in McLean
where he grew to manhood. He
is a graduate of the Boston Theo-logical
seminary. After being
ordained as a minister in the
Methodist church he took a pas-torate
of a San Jose church, then
went to Mason City, and later to
Gibson City where he at present
holds a charge. He has many
friends in the city who know
him as a young man of promise.
His bride is prominent in Mason
City, is a graduate of the Jack-sonville
Woman's college at
Jacksonville and a young lady of
many graces.
BRADLEY TO-MORROW
Foot Ball Team Is Ready to Meet
the Peorians Tomorrow-
Probable Line Up
Hoult Elected Marnager
To-morrow afternoon, the foot
ball team will play its first game
of the season when it goes to
Peoria to meet Bradley Polytech-nic.
The way in which the men,
both new and old, showed up in
a practice game with the high
school Wednesday evening is
very encouraging to the coaches,
who have been working men
for all they were worth to get
them into shape for the first
game.
Just who will play to-morrow
has not yet been decided upon.
The fact that the first game is to
be played abroad, naturally
hinders the coaches from trying-out
all the men who have been
practicing. However, as many
men will be taken along as it is
possible to take and they will
all be given a try-out. The rest
of the men who cannot be taken
along tomorrow will be tried-out
in the next game.
The men who have been
practing and from whom the
team for to-morrow's game will
be picked are as follows: c. Dolan
and Plumb; r. g., Powell, Carlyle;
1. g., Wright, Kohl; r. t., Hayes,
Lillard; 1. t., Johnson, Zweng;
1. e., Miller; r. e., Thompson,
Smith, q. b., Doolittle. r. h.,
Finley; 1. h., McCullough; f. b.,
O'Connell.
At the meeting of the Athletic
Board of control on last Wednes-day,
Mr. E. W. Hoult of the
senior class was elected manager
of the foot ball team. Mr. Hoult
has always taken great interest
in athletics at the Wesleyan. He
will make a good business man,
having had previous experience
in this line. The fact that he
has the spirit and a good busi-ness
head will insure his being a
successful manager.
REVIVALS AT GRACE M. E.
Wednesday evening at Grace
Church began a series of evangel-istic
meetings. Rev. C. O. Mc-
Culloch, pastor of the Methodist
Church at Normal and Rev. J. B.
Homey, Presiding Elder of
Bloomington District, will assist
Rev. B. F. Shipp in these ser-vices.
Both these men possess
special evangelistic gifts and a
cordial invitation isextended to
all students to attend this series
of meetings.
On September 1st Columbia
University at Washington, D. C.,
changed its name to George
Washington University. The
name was changed because Col-umbia
was so often confused
with Columbia at New York.

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Published weekly in the interest of the Illinois Wesleyan Uuiversity and its students.
VOL. XI. No. 5. BLOOMINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1904. PRcc FIVE CENTS
COLUMBIA CELEBRATES
In Honor of Its i50th Anniversary
-Eastern Universities Form
Triangular Debating League
Siftings From the Exchanges
Columbia University will
celebrate its 150th anniversary
on the last four days of this
month. The University was
founded as King's College in
1754.
Pennsylvania, Columbia, and
Cornell have formed a triangular
debating league. The league
will hold three debates annually,
all on the same night and on the
same question. Each University
will be represented by two teams.
A statue has recently been
completed at the University of
Minnesota dedicated to the
memory of the students of that
place who fought in the Spanish-
American war. The names of
two hundred students who en-listed
will appear on it. The
monument will cost $5,000.
In June the college editors met
in their first national convention
at St. Louis. Many interesting
and helpful features of college
journalism were discussed. Dan
McFarland of the Missouri State
University was chairman. Hon.
Frank Ferris in his welcome
address emphasized the import-ance
of the college paper, in con-clusion
he said; "The college
paper is a necessity, and the
literary training which the edi-tors
receive is of great import-ance
to them in after life." This
organization may mark the be-ginning
of better college papers.
Hazing still grows in unpopu-larity
in colleges where it has
formerly been practiced. Cornell
has come out boldly against the
practice, and President Harper of
Chicago University has an-nounced
that expulsion will fol-low
every case of hazing if the
hazers can be discovered.
The sequel of the "anti-hat-lifting
league" recently formed
by the men of the university of
Minnesota, is the "Anti-smile
association" formed by the girls
of that school. Their reasons
for this action are that smiling
causes wrinkles, and in cold
weather they cannot waste heat
in warm smiles.
It is raid that in spite of this
opposition the "anti-lifting"
movement goes peacefully and
successfully on.
Yale, Harvard, Massachussetts
Technology, and Colorado School
of Mines are arranging to lease a
Colorado mine. The purpose is
to have students from these
schools work the mines during
the summer, doing all work,
from sinking shafts to refining
the ore.
ARRANGE FOR DEBATES
Debate Committee Starting Action
For the Annual Debate With
Ohio Wesleyan
Wednesday morning after
chapel, President Longworth
called a meeting of the debate
committee to take action regard-ing
the debate with the Ohio
Wesleyan. It was the Ohioans'
turn last year to entertain our
team at Delaware. But owing
to the fact that they had debates
with other colleges last year at
home, they begged to have per-mission
to postpone the debate
with us until this year. Now
they write concerning future
arrangemen-ts in regard to hold-ing
the debate this year. The
secretary of the committee was
instructed to correspond with
Ohio regarding the choosing of
the question and sides and other
terms that need to be decided be-fore
any definite action can be
taken.
The secretary also holds a
corhmunication from Albion col-lege
of Michigan in which they
express a desire to meet the Wes-leyan
in debate at their place.
No definite action has been taken
by the committee regarding
either the acceptance or refusal
of the challenge. It is thought
best to wait and see how many
students will be interested in the
debate at all. If enough good
debating material can be inter-ested,
it is possible that two
teams can be made up. If there
is not an overabundance of ma-terial,
only one team will be
formed and this team will rep-resent
us both at Ohio and at
Albion, or it may be found best
to accept only one of the two
challenges. At any event, good
opportunities will be offered for
giving practical application of
the literary society training that
is now being offered.
No doubt it will be ruled by
the faculty that the teams shall
be made up of the successful
contestants in a meet between
the two societies, as was done in
choosing our representative
orator. It is probable that, after
the question has been selected,
the two societies will submit it to
their members for several pre-liminaries,
after which each
society will choose two teams
which will hold another pre-liminary
to decide upon the con-testants
in an inter-society con-test.
The law students are also
eligible to compete for places and
it is very probable that they will
take a hand in the matter. Steps
are being taken now to organize
a debating club among the law
students. This club will not
only offer splendid practice to the
lawyers, but it will also give
opportunities for the literary
societies to try their strength
with them in debates.
TERM ESSAY SUBJECTS
The List of Subjects For the Term
Essays of Upper Classes Is An-nounced-
Essays Due Dec. 5th
Professor Armstrong has se-lected
the subjects for the regu-lar
term essays given below.
Each student of the three upper
classes must choose one of the
subjects prescribed for his class
and write an essay on that sub-ject.
The essays are to consist
of a thousand words and are due
on December 15th.
The subjects for the Sopho-mores
are:
1. Comparison: Writings of
Jane Austen and of Charlotte
Bronte.
2. Comparison: Catherine of
Aragon (Henry VIII) and Hermi-one
(in Winter's Tale).
3. Rise of Papacy.
4. Lamb as a Critic.
5. Leo Wallace's Place in
Literature.
6. Review any one of the
following books: Henry Esmond,
Manfred, Faust, Pericles and
Aspasia, William Tell, Les Mis-erables.
The following is the list of
Senior and Junior subjects.
1. Comparison between Ameri-can
Senate and English House of
Lords.
2. The Masque.
3. Latest Developments in
Electricity.
4. Egyptian Influence on
Moses' Writings.
5. Coffee Houses in English
Literature.
Wordsworth's Treatment
6. Tennyson's df
Milton's 3Nature
7. Bible as Literature.
8. Struggle of Roman Ple-bians
for Political Equality.
9. Early Family and its Re-lation
to Society.
10. Origin of English Drama.
MCCARTY-ABBOT.
Rev. Frank McCarty, of Gib-son
City, and Miss Myrtle Abbot
of Mason City will be married
the early part of November. The
wedding will occur at the home
of the bride's parents in Mason
City.
Rev. McCarty is a graduate of
the Illinois Wesleyan and a mem-ber
of the Phi Gamma Delta Fra-ternity.
He was born in McLean
where he grew to manhood. He
is a graduate of the Boston Theo-logical
seminary. After being
ordained as a minister in the
Methodist church he took a pas-torate
of a San Jose church, then
went to Mason City, and later to
Gibson City where he at present
holds a charge. He has many
friends in the city who know
him as a young man of promise.
His bride is prominent in Mason
City, is a graduate of the Jack-sonville
Woman's college at
Jacksonville and a young lady of
many graces.
BRADLEY TO-MORROW
Foot Ball Team Is Ready to Meet
the Peorians Tomorrow-
Probable Line Up
Hoult Elected Marnager
To-morrow afternoon, the foot
ball team will play its first game
of the season when it goes to
Peoria to meet Bradley Polytech-nic.
The way in which the men,
both new and old, showed up in
a practice game with the high
school Wednesday evening is
very encouraging to the coaches,
who have been working men
for all they were worth to get
them into shape for the first
game.
Just who will play to-morrow
has not yet been decided upon.
The fact that the first game is to
be played abroad, naturally
hinders the coaches from trying-out
all the men who have been
practicing. However, as many
men will be taken along as it is
possible to take and they will
all be given a try-out. The rest
of the men who cannot be taken
along tomorrow will be tried-out
in the next game.
The men who have been
practing and from whom the
team for to-morrow's game will
be picked are as follows: c. Dolan
and Plumb; r. g., Powell, Carlyle;
1. g., Wright, Kohl; r. t., Hayes,
Lillard; 1. t., Johnson, Zweng;
1. e., Miller; r. e., Thompson,
Smith, q. b., Doolittle. r. h.,
Finley; 1. h., McCullough; f. b.,
O'Connell.
At the meeting of the Athletic
Board of control on last Wednes-day,
Mr. E. W. Hoult of the
senior class was elected manager
of the foot ball team. Mr. Hoult
has always taken great interest
in athletics at the Wesleyan. He
will make a good business man,
having had previous experience
in this line. The fact that he
has the spirit and a good busi-ness
head will insure his being a
successful manager.
REVIVALS AT GRACE M. E.
Wednesday evening at Grace
Church began a series of evangel-istic
meetings. Rev. C. O. Mc-
Culloch, pastor of the Methodist
Church at Normal and Rev. J. B.
Homey, Presiding Elder of
Bloomington District, will assist
Rev. B. F. Shipp in these ser-vices.
Both these men possess
special evangelistic gifts and a
cordial invitation isextended to
all students to attend this series
of meetings.
On September 1st Columbia
University at Washington, D. C.,
changed its name to George
Washington University. The
name was changed because Col-umbia
was so often confused
with Columbia at New York.